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Simulating Hamiltonian dynamics in a programmable photonic quantum processor using linear combinations of unitary operations

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06723v1
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:49:41 GMT
Title: Simulating Hamiltonian dynamics in a programmable photonic quantum processor using linear combinations of unitary operations
Authors: Yue Yu, Yulin Chi, Chonghao Zhai, Jieshan Huang, Qihuang Gong and Jianwei Wang
Abstract summary: We modify the multi-product Trotterization and combine it with the oblivious amplitude amplification to simultaneously reach a high simulation precision and high success probability. We experimentally implement the modified multi-product algorithm in an integrated-photonics programmable quantum simulator in silicon.
Score: 4.353492002036882
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Abstract: Simulating the dynamic evolutions of physical and molecular systems in a quantum computer is of fundamental interest in many applications. Its implementation requires efficient quantum simulation algorithms. The Lie-Trotter-Suzuki approximation algorithm, also well known as the Trotterization, is a basic algorithm in quantum dynamic simulation. A multi-product algorithm that is a linear combination of multiple Trotterizations has been proposed to improve the approximation accuracy. Implementing such multi-product Trotterization in quantum computers however remains experimentally challenging and its success probability is limited. Here, we modify the multi-product Trotterization and combine it with the oblivious amplitude amplification to simultaneously reach a high simulation precision and high success probability. We experimentally implement the modified multi-product algorithm in an integrated-photonics programmable quantum simulator in silicon, which allows the initialization, manipulation and measurement of four-qubit states and a sequence of linearly combined controlled-unitary gates, to emulate the dynamics of a coupled electron and nuclear spins system. Theoretical and experimental results are in good agreement, and they both show the modified multi-product algorithm can simulate Hamiltonian dynamics with a higher precision than conventional Trotterizations and a nearly deterministic success probability. We certificate the multi-product algorithm in a small-scale quantum simulator based on linear combinations of operations, and this work promises the practical implementations of quantum dynamics simulations.